South Carolina Sawmill Company Asks For Permit Extension
An extension for a critical permit to build a huge lumber sawmill was applied for just before the deadline Monday.
A state air quality permit to build the Klausner mill along the North Edisto River outside Orangeburg was due to expire at the close of business. The extension would be the second filed within eight months, according to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
The extension request will have to be reviewed to make sure the mill would still meet evolving federal standards, said Jim Beasley, DHEC spokesman. “If significant changes are needed to the permit to meet today’s air quality standards, a 30-day public comment period and an EPA review of the revised draft permit could be required,” he said.
Klausner Holdings U.S.A. in 2012 asked the state for permits to cut a maximum of 700 million board feet of lumber per year — an industrial-scale quantity that conservationists feared could strip Lowcountry timberlands. The mill was one of three proposed for Southeast states. Similarly sized mills in Enfield, N.C., and Live Oak, Fla., already are in production.
From The Post And Courier: postandcourier.com.
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